General Question

Should I use tumblr or an real website to blog?

I am starting a blog, and can’t decide whether or not to use tumblr for my blog, or start a website with something like rackspace. Is there a reason not to use tumblr? I’m new to blogging, so any help is greatly appreciated!

21 Answers

Depends, if you buy a website and some cheap hosting, it would only be about $8 for the domain a year and a couple bucks a monthf or the hosting. Then you could get some free open source blogging software to use.

I would go cheap and easy first. The content is more important than the platform, and it takes time & practice to learn to create posts interesting to other people, and to post often enough to keep people coming back.

Since you’re not familiar with website creation, I think a good way to go it to sign up with a free blogging service and purchase a domain to go with it (e.g. rguestawesomeblog.com). This will run you about 8$ as @pjanaway said.

To do this, you could sign up either with Tumblr, Wordpress, Blogger or another service.

Tumblr is super-simple to set up and run, but lacks a lot of advanced features. It does, however provide a lot of built-in themes and lets you edit the style of the website as much as your want.

Blogger also lets you do that, but I don’t like it, personally. It has its advantages though.

Wordpress is my favourite of the bunch. It’s free, and it has tons of features. It looks overwhelming at first, but you don’t need to tinker with anything to get going. Just start, and you’ll figure stuff out as you go. The downside is that you have less themes to work with, and to edit the stylesheet you need to pay extra.

I think I’m going to go with Tumblr. I can give creat my own name instead of having xxx.tumblr.com to make it seem more like an actual website. I am not and advanced enough to use wordpress. I just attempted to install it, and couldn’t even get past that step. So Tumblr it is!